After 13 years of applying 60 times for a promotional opportunity, the Milwaukee Area Technical College finally promoted Wayd to a full-time Librarian position.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
March 3, 2025
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Sunday, Hispanic News Network U.S.A. (HNNUSA) learned that Jennifer Wayd that has worked at the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) in the Library Department for more than 13 years and had applied at least 60 times during her career for a promotional opportunity, but had been skipped or denied a full-time position, has finally secured a full-time position as a Librarian at MATC. Congrats!
In December 2024, Wayd was among other MATC employees who addressed the MATC Board of Trustees during a meeting that had requested for an independent investigation of unaddressed concerns impacting Blacks and Latino employees. (Article link: http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2024/12/african-american-network-requested-for.html)
During her testimony to the MATC Board of Trustees, Wayd told the Board that she had worked at MATC for 13 years and had applied at least 60 times for promotional opportunities at MATC during her career at the technical college, but was unsuccessful in getting promoted claiming ongoing discrimination employment practices at MATC. A few years ago, there were four new positions available in her department, Wayd who has two Master degrees had applied for an available position as an internal candidate and was well qualified, but MATC hired four new individuals from outside the institution with no internal experience for the available positions instead of her, now those very same individuals who were previously hired by MATC were supporting her for a full-time position she had applied for. She also claimed that she has a current manager with a vendetta against her and at the time of her testimony to the Board in December, she didn't believe that she would get an opportunity to get promoted.
However, that has changed and Wayd secured a full-time Librarian position.
HNNUSA also reported in October 2024, the alleged ongoing discriminatory, harassment, hostile work environment and retribution practices that MATC employees experience for exposing the ongoing plight that Black and Latino employees endure at MATC for filing complaints and who have gone before the Board to testify about their own personal employment experience. (Article link: http://hispanicnewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2024/10/matc-advertised-bilingual-courses-but.html)
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